Pablo Picasso

My mother said to me, if you are a soldier, you will became a general. If you are a monk will become the Pope. Instead, I was a painter, and became Picasso.

Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

If I paint a wild horse, you might not see the horse... but surely you will see the wildness!

I am always doing things I can’t do. That is how I get to do them.

In art intentions are not sufficient and, as we say in Spanish, love must be proved by deeds and not by reasons. What one does is what counts and not what one had the intention of doing.

Bad artists copy. Good artists steal.

The world doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?

L'art lave notre âme de la poussière du quotidien.

When I was a child my mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general. If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.' Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso.

My hand tells me what I’m thinking.

Some painters turn a yellow dot into the sun, others turn the sun into a yellow dot.

Cuando me dicen que soy demasiado viejo para hacer una cosa, procuro hacerla enseguida

People want to find a 'meaning' in everything and everyone. That's the disease of our age, an age that is anything but practical but believes itself to be more practical than any other age.

Sex and art are the same thing.

God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.